Thanks for highlighting this! This lines up almost exactly with what I’ve been working on: healthcare scarcity isn’t a market outcome, it’s a regulatory architecture. Certificate of need laws, facility-fee rules, scope-of-practice limits, and employer-based financing all combine to throttle supply and push care into the most expensive settings. It’s the same pattern we see in housing. Once you clear those choke points, prices fall because the system finally has room to breathe. Glad to see the argument get the attention it deserves!
Excellent analysis! This lines up almost exactly with what I’ve been working on: healthcare scarcity isn’t a market outcome, it’s a regulatory architecture. Certificate of need laws, facility-fee rules, scope-of-practice limits, and employer-based financing all combine to throttle supply and push care into the most expensive settings. It’s the same pattern we see in housing. Once you clear those choke points, prices fall because the system finally has room to breathe. Glad to see the argument get the attention it deserves!
Thanks for highlighting this! This lines up almost exactly with what I’ve been working on: healthcare scarcity isn’t a market outcome, it’s a regulatory architecture. Certificate of need laws, facility-fee rules, scope-of-practice limits, and employer-based financing all combine to throttle supply and push care into the most expensive settings. It’s the same pattern we see in housing. Once you clear those choke points, prices fall because the system finally has room to breathe. Glad to see the argument get the attention it deserves!
Excellent analysis! This lines up almost exactly with what I’ve been working on: healthcare scarcity isn’t a market outcome, it’s a regulatory architecture. Certificate of need laws, facility-fee rules, scope-of-practice limits, and employer-based financing all combine to throttle supply and push care into the most expensive settings. It’s the same pattern we see in housing. Once you clear those choke points, prices fall because the system finally has room to breathe. Glad to see the argument get the attention it deserves!
You seem to focus on Certificate of Need laws. I am fairly sure that they were repealed in 15 states, among them California, Pennsylvania and Texas.
Is there evidence that the situation there has improved?
Yes. Montana saw an immediate drop in insurance premiums after they repealed their CON
By how much did insurance premium drop? Was that drop seen anywhere else?